Research-Based Frameworks for Talent and Leadership

Most organizations do not struggle because they lack effort. They struggle because they are working without a clear system, solving problems in isolation, and making talent decisions that are harder to defend than they should be.

Orange Grove Consulting’s work is grounded in four proprietary frameworks developed through decades of research and applied practice with hundreds of organizations. Each framework addresses a distinct challenge in the talent and leadership lifecycle. Together, they form a connected system for diagnosing what is happening, developing leaders intentionally, and making decisions that hold up when the pressure is on.

These frameworks are not theoretical. They are the analytical foundation behind every engagement OGC takes on, and they are designed to be transparent so that the organizations we work with understand exactly how we are helping them think.

Our Frameworks

OGC Leadership Competency Wheel

Most leadership competency models are flat lists that look the same regardless of leader level. They tell you what good leadership is, but not how it develops, what it looks like at different levels, or how to use it to make real hiring, promotion, and succession decisions.

The OGC Leadership Competency Wheel is a research-based framework built around a different insight: leadership capability is not a fixed set of traits, it is a developmental progression that grows outward from leading self to leading the enterprise. The Wheel gives HR and talent leaders a structured foundation for defining leadership expectations, designing targeted development, and making talent decisions that are consistent and defensible.

OGC Workforce Priorities System

Most organizations measure engagement. Fewer know how to turn that data into a confident, defensible decision about where to focus next.

The OGC Workforce Priorities System is a two-part framework that moves HR and talent leaders from engagement data to strategic clarity. The OGC Engagement Impact Model uses regression analysis to identify which workforce drivers most strongly predict engagement and retention in your organization specifically. The OGC Workforce Priorities Framework then provides a structured, four-gate decision process for evaluating which solutions are worth pursuing and whether the organization is actually ready to pursue them. Together, they give you a rigorous, honest path from data to decision.

OGC Talent Health System

When something breaks in an organization, the instinct is to fix the thing that broke. Turnover spikes, so you focus on retention. Engagement drops, so you run a survey. Leadership gaps appear, so you schedule training. These responses are understandable. They are also often incomplete.

The OGC Talent Health System is built on a different premise: talent challenges are symptoms of system health, and every presenting problem connects to the whole.

The framework gives HR leaders a way to see both the immediate fire and the conditions that created it, so that the work of solving today’s problem also builds a stronger foundation for tomorrow. No matter where you enter the system, the work you do connects to the whole.

OGC Integrated Change Model

Research consistently shows that roughly 70 percent of change initiatives fail to deliver their intended outcomes. The reason is rarely a failure of intent. It is a failure of completeness. Most organizations invest heavily in launching change and underinvest in understanding what change actually requires to become permanent. They focus on the sequencing and the rollout, and skip the harder question: have we clearly defined what needs to be different, and across which dimensions of the organization?

The OGC Integrated Change Model addresses that gap. It defines five interconnected conditions that must shift simultaneously for change to hold: Culture, People, Processes, Performance, and Leadership. OGC embeds this model into every engagement, so that recommendations are not just analytically sound but designed to last well beyond the initial implementation.

The right framework doesn’t just explain your talent challenges. It helps you solve them.

Not Sure Where To Start?

Each framework is designed to stand on its own, and they are also designed to work together. If you are navigating a specific talent challenge and want to understand which frameworks are most relevant to your situation, let’s talk it through together.